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Believe It Or Not Spidey Was Not The First Superhero To Be Embarrassed With A Musical!

This aired one time and one time only back in the 70's. Can you guess why?
Yes, it is that bad. The Spider-Man musical is stuck in development hell. Somehow the video below made the cut and actually aired on TV once in the 70's. The 70's musical video is based on the actual Broadway musical. I never knew Superman could sing, or even wanted to. Anyway take a look for yourself.



I'm not sure why people think musicals match up with superhero movies? Yes I asked it, WHY? Whatever ya know, to each their own. Oh, and by the way, Superman is being prepped for a revival on Broadway in "It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman!" planned for 2010! So strap in everybody, the stiffs on Broadway get what they want before the masses can get a solid up to date Superman movie. One of the title songs goes like this:

"Why must the strongest man in the world be the saddest man, tell me why? Don't they know the strongest man can cry?"

Any thoughts?
4 Yes
1 No
jman1977
12/3/2009
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27 Comments

gayyyyy sauce
kenji540 - 12/3/2009, 2:35 PM
weird
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 2:45 PM
so uncool
superheromoviefan - 12/3/2009, 2:58 PM
Finally, a casting choice that Jensen Ackles would actually be good for! Gay Broadway Superman!
imnotwearinghockeypants - 12/3/2009, 3:00 PM
omg its so wierd. the acting and script is amazingly odd
theartofoneness - 12/3/2009, 3:26 PM
imnotwearinghockeypants @ Lmfao dude!!! : D

Nice vid @ JMAN lol!!
LEEE777 - 12/3/2009, 3:27 PM
This is cool!
Betty - 12/3/2009, 3:36 PM
Holy Mother Of God!! After this Returns isn't so bad. :)
weapon925 - 12/3/2009, 3:40 PM
only once before have i cried with laughter and pain, too the same degree as i have just done after watching this video.......and that was the star wars christmas special!
Rolanddeschain19 - 12/3/2009, 3:44 PM
Why does this remind me of the Superwoman porno from the 70's? Anyone else?
YogiDonnie - 12/3/2009, 3:47 PM
omg this is the stupidest thing i have ever seen
tyko450 - 12/3/2009, 4:09 PM
fingers crossed for batman musical with christian bale using his cancer voice to sing

bleedthefreak - 12/3/2009, 4:12 PM
wow, it's said that although it never caught on with the public it actually received favorable reviews and was nominated for a few tony's. Now that's weird.
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 4:43 PM
@bleedthefreak- yeah I can imagine him now "nanananananananananan BATMAN!! *cough* *cough* BATMAN!! BATMAN chrsitianbale BATMAN!!! *cough* *cough*"
Ryden - 12/3/2009, 4:46 PM
@Ryden it would be beautiful
bleedthefreak - 12/3/2009, 4:52 PM
That was horrid.

And for those who don't know this is NOT Spider-Man's first on stage musical. It was called "Spider-Man: Live!"


Stumblin - 12/3/2009, 4:56 PM
And u people say that return is a bad superman moment this knock off even superman IV, ohhh my!!! you said jman the world greatest hero had feelings to, damn!
Ship - 12/3/2009, 4:58 PM
I love the hillbilly, Texas Chainsaw Kents that pick him up. "We always wanted one of those!" There's a Red Son-style else worlds concept for you. Durrrr.
imnotwearinghockeypants - 12/3/2009, 5:15 PM
that's not exactly a musical though stumblin, Spiderman live was a stunt show, sort of like the Indiana Jones stunt spectacular at disney.
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 5:28 PM
You'll believe a man can cry, after watching this movie.
stopdropandroll - 12/3/2009, 5:37 PM
Good call thwhtGuardian Hm...still sucked though. Oh well.
Stumblin - 12/3/2009, 7:00 PM
LMBO. I am laughing so hard...The kents made me laugh so hard...wow, someone should make a remake...call Tom Welling's agent.
Celenco - 12/3/2009, 11:53 PM
Did you guys ever watch Batman Beyond? They had a small Batman Musical in one of the episodes. It was fun. It was called "Out of the Past" if anybody wants to look into it. Talia Head comes back.
Jib7z - 12/4/2009, 12:23 AM
Batman Brave and the Bold Music Miester
georgia49th - 12/4/2009, 12:41 AM
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they were pitching this idea......at some point someone loved this idea.
Angelo - 12/4/2009, 7:30 AM
What the hell happened to Superman's nose!? Really.

Ryan Hurst for Cap!!
aztony1975 - 12/5/2009, 4:23 PM
What the F-bomb? I have to wonder who had the idea to have mobsters singing and dancing...

They take something as good as Superman and do THAT to him? No wonder people don't take comic nerds seriously!!!!

Rosie O'Donnell as Kilowog!
batfan39 - 12/6/2009, 9:59 AM

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